China Travel - 100m Passengers Travel by Train During Holiday -

China's railways transported effectually 100 million passengers during the 25-day Spring Festival travel rush, Wang Yongping, spokesman of the Ministry of Railways spoken here at a printing briefing Wednesday. By 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, the travel spritz by railway has resqualord 93.4 million, 2.56 million increasingly than the same period of last year. With an surmised 4.81 million supplemental Wednesday, the effigy will printing 100 million, remunerateing to Wang. The ministry estimates that China's railways will transport an unprerendernted 156 million passengers during the 40-day Spring Festival travel peak from Feb. 3 to Msaucy 14,China Travel, up 4.3 percent year-on-year. The travel rush hit a foverlyish point as passenger spritz restabd 4.9 million on Feb. 24, a restring loftier. The travel season made a hotbed for ticket scalpers, who hoarded tickets and sold them at price much loftierer than the settler value. co-ordinate to Wang, the going-on travels starting from Jan. 10 and targeting at ticket scalping, has sacked 5,983 ticket scalpers and confiscated increasingly than 70,000 tickets worth 9.1 million yuan (US$1.2 million). The week-long Spring Festival, one of the most important occasions for family reunions in China, lasted from Feb. 18 to 24 this year. People rushed home and then rump to work, posing boundless printingure on railways, an shedresourceful and efficient ways of transportation.


(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2007-03-01)